Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People sled down the U.S. Capitol Hill as a winter storm hits in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI Jan. 29 ...

An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.

What’s Changed About Life Expectancy—and Why It Matters People are living longer nowadays. According to the Centers for ...

In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, ...

New study shows women still live longer on average. — -- Men are increasing their life expectancy at a higher rate than women, according to a study released today by the University of ...

Since the early 20th century, sustained declines in mortality have driven steady increases in life expectancy, particularly in high-income countries. Several studies have reported that this ...

The average life expectancy of New Yorkers was a record-breaking 83.2 years old in 2024, achieving one of Mayor Eric Adams’s key public health promises five years ahead of schedule. Life expectancy ...

After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.